Geek feminist contributions to open source

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Very frequently, we get asked "What have geek feminists ever contributed to open source" (... "except for whining about sexism" is the implicit, or quite often explicit, addition to that). We seldom dignify these questions with an answer, because they are generally not intended in a serious spirit of inquiry; if they were, we wouldn't get them so much from anonymous trolls. These questions are intended as a silencing tactic, and are not generally asked of non-feminists (even those whose activism far outweighs their contributions).

It's also worth noting that Geek Feminism is not specific to open source, and covers other fields such as the tech industry at large, science fiction fandom, gaming, skepticism, and other geek fields. The question of open source contribution is even less relevant to our contributors who aren't even in that field.

However, in the general spirit of decreasing the amount of ignorance in the world, as well as a reminder to ourselves when we're under attack, here is a list of things that Geek Feminists have contributed to open source.

Please also note that this is for a list of contributions *other* than feminist activism, since we can assume that geek feminists are doing that, by definition, and because the whole point of the question, according to the people asking it, is that such activism doesn't count as a contribution to the community. (A stance, needless to say, with which we disagree. But if you want to see our feminist contributions to open source, you can look at the rest of this wiki.)